On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Jonathan van der Watt < jonathan.vanderw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Good day, > > I'm very new to Puppet and am trying to manage the snmpd daemon and > associated config on our Red Hat servers using Puppet (for a start). > My problem is not ensuring that the config file is present or that the > package is installed. My problem is that the NMS we're using to > monitor our servers needs to have extra config in the snmpd.conf file > in order for it to monitor the space usage of mounted disks. Like so: > > disk / > disk /var/log > disk /var/lib/mysql > > This needs to be added somewhere in the snmpd.conf file; usually the > bottom. Now, this is obviously never going to be the same on every > single server... How would I accomplish this using Puppet? I'm > guessing that I will need to use a template with some erb code and > some facts from facter, but I'm just not sure what to do or how the > code should look. Even if Puppet could ensure that all the disks (/dev/ > shm, /boot etc) are in there that would be fine. We could just tell > our NMS which disks we want it to monitor. But it has to be in the > above format! > > Any suggestions would be appreciated! > You could centrally manage the snmp.conf files by class of server, or by individual host. Or you could go the route of custom facts. Here is a ticket discussing this: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2847 (It does look like if you wait, it will be included in facter.) J > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- <http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/brandorr/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
